Downtown Owl - by Chuck Klosterman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Like a colder, Reagan-era version of "The Last Picture Show" fused with "Friday Night Lights, Downtown Owl" is the unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where rural mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>New York Times bestselling author and "oneofAmerica'stop cultural critics" (Entertainment Weekly) Chuck Klosterman's debut novel brilliantly captures the charm and dread of small town life--now available in trade paperback.</b> Somewhere in rural North Dakota, there is a fictional town called Owl. They don't have cable. They don't really have pop culture, but they do have grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. But that's not nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it's perfect. Mitch Hrlicka lives in Owl. He plays high school football and worries about his weirdness, or lack thereof. Julia Rabia just moved to Owl. A history teacher, she gets free booze and falls in love with a self-loathing bison farmer. Widower and local conversationalist Horace Jones has resided in Owl for seventy-three years. They all know each other completely, except that they've never met. But when a deadly blizzard-- based on an actual storm that occurred in 1984--hits the area, their lives are derailed in unex- pected and powerful ways. An unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where local mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing, Downtown Owl is "a satisfying character study and strikes a perfect balance between the funny and the pro- found" (Publishers Weekly).<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An astonishingly moving book, a minor masterpiece in the genre we might call small-town quirkiana. -- <i>The Boston Globe</i><br><br>It's tempting to compare this novel with Sherwood Anderson's classic portrait of small-town American life, <i>Winesburg, Ohio</i>. But no one in Winesburg listened to Ozzy Osbourne. And Klosterman is much funnier than Anderson. -- <i>The Washington Post</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Chuck Klosterman </b>is the author of<b> </b><i>Chuck Klosterman</i><b> </b><i>IV; Fargo Rock City</i>;<i> Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs</i>; and <i>Killing Yourself to Live</i>. He was until recently a columnist<i> </i>for <i>Esquire</i>, a contributor to <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>, and has also written for <i>GQ</i>, <i>Spin</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>ESPN</i>, and<i> The Believer</i>. He lives in New York City.
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